10.4225/03/57E9B5AB6F8CE
Eldrandaly, Khalid
Khalid
Eldrandaly
GIS software selection: a multi criteria decision making approach
Monash University
2016
monash:5144
1959.1/5144
GIS
software selection
MCDM
AHP
2007
collection(s) Applied GIS
Type journal article
1832-5505
2016-09-26 23:56:24
Journal contribution
https://bridges.monash.edu/articles/journal_contribution/GIS_software_selection_a_multi_criteria_decision_making_approach/3859836
Building a new GIS project is a major investment. Choosing the right GIS software package is critical to the success and failure of such investment. The problem of selecting the most appropriate GIS software package for a particular GIS project is a multi criteria decision making (MCDM) problem. Solving this problem requires consideration of a comprehensive set of factors and balancing of multiple objectives in determining the suitability of particular software for building a defined GIS application. In this paper a MCDM technique, analytic hierarchy process (AHP), is used to assist system developers to select the most appropriate GIS software for a specific application. An AHP decision model is formulated and applied to a hypothetical case study to examine its feasibility in solving GIS software selection problem. The use of the proposed model indicates that it can be applied to improve the decision making process and to reduce the time taken to select a GIS software.